34 Racial Lynching Victims Pardoned Posthumously By Gov. Hogan
Reply Gov. Larry Hogan on Saturday issued a full posthumous pardon for 34 Maryland victims of racial lynching between 1854 and 1933, and said the fundamental rights of the slain were violated. The announcement came at a Towson event in honor of Howard Cooper. ( Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) TOWSON, MD — Full posthumous pardons for 34 Maryland victims of racial lynching between 1854 and 1933, were issued Saturday by Gov. Larry Hogan. The announcement came at a Towson event in honor of Howard Cooper, a 15-year old boy who was dragged from the Baltimore County Jail and hanged from a sycamore ...